Icon: Sting & the Police
By Wayne Robins, eMusic Contributor
It was early 1979. The Police's debut album, Outlandos d'Amour had just been released. The band was on their round of debut performances in the United States, playing such showcase clubs as the Bottom Line in Manhattan and My Father's Place in Roslyn, Long Island. Most everyone in those 300-500 seaters who saw the Anglo-American trio of Stewart Copeland on drums, Andy Summers on guitar and Gordon "Sting" Sumner on bass and lead vocals -… more »